[clug] Think Pieces

[Sam Couter]

So a whole bunch of stuff about an immature industry here. One root cause
of these problems is that in software we're still learning what we're
doing. Everything is uncertain for lots of reasons, we've only been at it
seriously for a few decades and the complexity of what we do is insane
compared to the average office building. Maybe we'll never have it worked
out as well as civil engineering is because of that complexity.

Anyway, one specific thing stuck out to me:

On Sat, 10 Jul 2021, 12:10 jhock--- wrote:

> All the developers have to do is validate their HTML and it's a disgrace
> that developers expect otherwise.
>

This is harder than it seems - the HTML is usually generated so any part of
it may come and go based on application state and user actions. You'd
pretty much have to manipulate output in a DOM and serialise that to get it
right every time. And if you're doing that, the browser already has a DOM
so why not manipulate that instead of delivering any HTML at all? Use the
modern tools available, e.g. Vue.js, React or Angular.